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1082 books!
posted Sunday, 11 September 2005
I can't help but mentioning Penguin's Classics collection being sold at Amazon for $8000. It includes 1082 books, an estimated decade to read them, if you read one a week. I've heard an interview with the Penguin person who came up with this idea on NPR and the basic idea for this was "why not"? A marketing success given the noise around this collection of books who was available before anyways. The delivery is free!! I wonder if that includes international deliveries. I have also hear someone say they had read 75 books of the collection and i, being a crazied bookaholic with little time to read at present, had to count the books I have read from the collection and came up with a very reasonable 182. Enough talk, had I $8000 to spare, I would so buy this collection. If anybody out there wants ideas for Birthday/Christmas gift, well here it is!!
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